Lotte waiter

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Charlotte "Lotte" Kellner , b. Sperling (born October 15, 1904 ; † unknown) was a German-British physicist .

Life and activity

After attending school, Sperling studied physics. In 1929 she received her doctorate in Berlin with a thesis on the spectral region between 20_m63 and 40_m63 as a Dr. rer. nat. She then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Radiation Research at Berlin University from 1929 to 1933. She married around 1930 and was called Kellner from then on.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Kellner was ousted from the institute due to her - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent. She emigrated to Great Britain, where she was initially accepted as a guest at Cambridge University.

In 1934, Kellner was hired as a researcher at the University of London's Imperial College of Science and Technology , where she worked with Alfred Fowler . She initially stayed here until 1940, when, due to the outbreak of World War II - as she was still a German citizen - she was temporarily removed from the university's service as a member of a hostile power.

After her emigration, Kellner was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put her on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

After being naturalized in 1941, she was able to return to Imperial College that year. In 1944/1945 Kellner got a permanent position as a lecturer at this institution. In the early 1960s, Kellner also emerged with the publication of a biography about Alexander von Humboldt .

Fonts

  • Investigations in the spectral region between 20_m63 and 40_m63 , 1929.
  • The importance of the ultra-red radiation area for the rickets protection substance. Spectroscopic studies. (Inst. F. Radiation Research, Univ. Berlin.) Strahlenther. 41: 232-250 (1931).
  • "The Hydrogen Bond", in: Reports on Progress in Physics , Vol. XV, 1952.
  • "Le Specter de Valence CC d'hydrocarbures Substitués et isom`eres", in: Journal Phys. Radium , 1954, 15 (4), pp. 309-313.
  • "Criteria Determining the Design of a Source-Modulated Microwave Spectrometer", in: Proceedings of the Physical Society , 1958.
  • "Microwave Spectroscopy", in: Scientia Jg. 98, 1963, p. 51.56.
  • Alexander von Humboldt , Oxford University Press, New York 1963.

literature

  • Who's Who of British Scientists , 1971, p. 478.
  • Eva Schöck-Quinteros : Barriers and Careers: The Beginnings of Women's Studies in Germany. Documentation volume of the conference "100 Years of Women in Science" in February 1997 at the University of Bremen . 2000, p. 222.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Kellner on the special wanted site GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London)
personal data
SURNAME Waiter, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waiter, Charlotte; Sperling, Lotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1904
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century